State v. Blair

Defendant, Gary L. Blair, was convicted by a jury of sexual assault pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 3252(a)(1)(A). Defendant appeals, claiming two grounds for reversal: (1) that the trial court erred by failing to inquire further into the possibility of jury misconduct; and (2) that the court erred in excluding opin ion testimony to demonstrate the victim’s character for untruthfulness. Since we reverse defendant’s conviction based on the trial court’s exclusion of the opinion testimony, we do not reach the other issue raised by defendant.

The trial came down to a credibility contest between two…